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This is such an old programming language flame war trope that it was probably first written in Aramaic. When I started programming as a teenager and commented on FIDOnet BBS's, people literally said it about assembly language. If for no other reason than to preserve your own dignity, please don't imply that people program in a particular language because they're not good enough to program in other languages.

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> This is such an old programming language flame war trope that it was probably first written in Aramaic.

I love the quip, but

> people literally said it about assembly language. If for no other reason than to preserve your own dignity, please don't imply that people program in a particular language because they're not good enough to program in other languages.

This is an inversion of the sentiment being expressed: the suggestion is to use languages that allow you to shift more cognitive overhead to the compiler and tooling. If anything, I program in Rust when I fear that the keeping track of all the little bits Go doesn't help me with will take up too much of my puny human brain.

That's nice and all, but how is it relevant to my paraphrasing of the grandparent comment to clarify the distinction from the parent's misreading?

As the sibling comment points out, you managed to misidentify the trope to boot.

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